Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Two days ago, Makassed KSPS hosted the speaker bureau, a program provided by the cultural affairs office at the US. Embassy in Lebanon through a valuable and interactive lecture provided by Mr. Antonio Banchs from the US embassy. The lecture entitled "Our Rivers, Our World!" was offered to our sixth graders from Makassed KSPS, Khadijah, and OBK schools with the presence of Mrs. Souheir Zein, the director of Makassed Research and Development Center, and Mrs. Edith Bitar, the assistant of cultural affairs office at the US Embassy. At the end, Mr. Banchs gave generous gifts of worldwide old and current coins to all students and teachers.

It was a great event due to the efforts, interactivity and valuable information provided by Mr. Banchs as well as the mutual collaboration between our school and the US Embassy. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mr. Banchs and Mrs. Edith Bitar for their caring, time and cooperation.

Monday, November 17, 2014

The idea of statistics for grade 5 students is quite new so a different strategy was needed to approach the concept. Thus, a survey paper was prepared including ten questions that asked about favorite color, food, subject, pet, sport, hobby…etc. The survey papers were distributed to all KSPS staff (teachers and administrators) and fifth graders asked their help to understand the lesson by answering all the questions. After that, students went to the computer lab to classify the results. They drew different types of charts that allowed them to read the results easily. It’s really beneficial to integrate ICT in our Math sessions.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The science department at
KSPS started online quizzes for cycle 2 classes. Different web tools are used
to create these quizzes such as hot potatoes, zoomerang, proprofs… The
advantage of such quizzes is saving our time and the environment as well as. Students
are having immediate feedback on their results and waiting for their next quiz impatiently.

Saturday, November 08, 2014

Every student learns the subject matter in a variety of different ways, thus several hands-on activities were done in grade 5 to engage students to learn about the stages of Mitosis. Kinesthetic students became kitchen chiefs and prepared “vegetables spaghetti” where its ingredients were used as the cell’s organelles. Musical students composed a rap song about the process of cell division.

Thursday, November 06, 2014

5 November 2014 was a very critical date for KSPS G5 students. On this day the class had to make a choice, students had to decide, choose, and vote for their friends, and eventually vote for the student who deserved to be the president of the class. The candidates were prepared to give a speech and to show their fellow classmates what they would do for the class and school, if they were elected to be the president of the class. Students had prepared banners and had slogans on them to cheer the audience and their candidate friends.

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The students are cheering up their friend Mohammad Itani

It’s worth mentioning that the students had invited other classes and teachers to attend the “Election Speech” in order to cheer the candidates up.

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Even our Science and Math teacher Mrs. Rawaa Shehab joined us with G6 and also voted

Hopefully, the election was over with no complications and inconvenient incidents and G5 students chose Mr. Omar el Bash/Mr. Mohammad Itani and Mrs. Rasha Sukkar as their presidents of their class.

Monday, November 03, 2014

On Saturday, November 1, 2014 KSPS G5 students came to
school with their "crazy noses" and together we discovered the function of these “different
kinds of noses”.

It was an interesting day, some students had bought noses of witches, clowns, cats, and dogs from stores, and others had actually prepared it by their hands with the help of their parents. It’s interesting to mention the elephant’s trunk, Pinocchio’s long nose, and the nose of a polar bear …

As the teacher of my dear students I’d like to share some of their impressions
on this activity:

-Having a nose other than ours is fun and exciting!

-After this activity, I am glad I am a human being and
that I can breathe.

-Now I know the value of my nose and other animals’
noses.

-After seeing and trying on Pinocchio’s nose, I am never
going to lie ever again.

Let’s cherish the things we have and know their value as long as we have them!